Chemistry: Atoms, Elements and Compounds
-includes a sample unit outline and sixlesson plans
-provides examples of learning stations and a choice board
-incorporates an adaptation of the "Steps to Inquiry" from SmartScience (www.smarterscience.ca)
How to Use Steps to Inquiry can be found at http://dpcdsb-science-writing.wikispaces.com/Lessons+Created+2010
How does your Garden Grow?
-using inquiry to investigate and explain
various environmental contaminants and how
they affect the environment
-also includes a proposed unit plan and suggested
days to introduce, plan, and conduct student-directed
inquiries
start germinating the seeds prior to the start of the lab so that they are little seedlings by the start of the lab (e.g. 1-2 days prior to starting the lab)
for treatment of each plant: 15 drops of treatment + 15 drops of water (so that the plant does not die from dehydration)
monitor the water absorption - they may need to be watered more on Fridays so that they are not dehydrated by Monday
Frayer Model: Use with students to summarize the main ideas by comparing and contrasting the different groups of the periodic table. This table was meant to support Nelson 9 (1999) pg. 110-113), but can easily be adapted for other texts.
-choice board: demonstrate an understanding that we have aresponsibility to regulate our impact on thesustainability ofecosystems in order to preserve them for future generations (Gr 9)
Nelson Education's Catholic Values Tool Kit* use this link & your access code to access online resources
(lesson plans that connect science with Catholic Values)
Space Science Education and Public Outreach
group at Sonoma State University
-includes video games, educational activities, PowerPoint
presentations, etc. related to black holes, gamma rays,
galaxies, stars, and electromagnetic spectrum
Via BBC News
Plugging gadgets into a socket in the wall, or loading them with batteries - or maybe even unfurling a solar panel - is how most of us think of getting electricity. But what about plugging them into your body? Read More
Stellarium - FREE program for observing the night sky!
Welcome to Grade 9 Science!
-includes safety (equipment, MSDS), bkg knowledge, etc.
-includes a sample unit outline and sixlesson plans
-provides examples of learning stations and a choice board
-incorporates an adaptation of the "Steps to Inquiry" from SmartScience
(www.smarterscience.ca)
How to Use Steps to Inquiry can be found at
http://dpcdsb-science-writing.wikispaces.com/Lessons+Created+2010
Note: for Lesson 3, consider having all students try each station and they can reflect on which station helped them learn best.
(Gonzaga)
-includes a sample unit outline and five lesson plans
-provides an example of a RAFT
-incorporates the "Steps to Inquiry" from SmartScience
(www.smarterscience.ca)
How to Use Steps to Inquiry can be found at
http://dpcdsb-science-writing.wikispaces.com/Lessons+Created+2010
(Joan of Arc)
-using inquiry to investigate and explain
various environmental contaminants and how
they affect the environment
-also includes a proposed unit plan and suggested
days to introduce, plan, and conduct student-directed
inquiries
Notes: you may want to consider the following
- start germinating the seeds prior to the start of the lab so that they are little seedlings by the start of the lab (e.g. 1-2 days prior to starting the lab)
- for treatment of each plant: 15 drops of treatment + 15 drops of water (so that the plant does not die from dehydration)
- monitor the water absorption - they may need to be watered more on Fridays so that they are not dehydrated by Monday
Gizmo Alert! You can use the "Plant Growth" gizmo to simulate a similar investigation:http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=615
The teacher resources also includes how to use this gizmo with "Smarter Science" posters.
Laura and
Lauren
(SNC1P)
-includes a sample unit outline and seven lesson plans
-provides an example of a Learning Menu (Contract)
(Cabot
-electroscope, charging by friction, conduction & induction
(Ambrozic)
Frayer Model: Use with students to summarize the main ideas by comparing and contrasting the different groups of the periodic table. This table was meant to support Nelson 9 (1999) pg. 110-113), but can easily be adapted for other texts.
demonstrate an understanding that we have aresponsibility to regulate our impact on thesustainability ofecosystems in order to preserve them for future generations (Gr 9)
Useful Web Sites
(lesson plans that connect science with Catholic Values)
www.nelson.com/cptconnections9
http://www.nelson.com/onsciencepd
Current Electricity
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/main/teacher_resources.html
group at Sonoma State University
-includes video games, educational activities, PowerPoint
presentations, etc. related to black holes, gamma rays,
galaxies, stars, and electromagnetic spectrum
Plugging gadgets into a socket in the wall, or loading them with batteries - or maybe even unfurling a solar panel - is how most of us think of getting electricity. But what about plugging them into your body? Read More